Apocalypto

Mel Gibson’s one of the most disturbed people in Hollywood, which is going some, with a truly worrying obsession with human suffering, as evidenced in the grisly Braveheart and, of course, the largely unwatchable The Passion Of The Christ. What he delivers here, however, while, unsurprisingly gory is also a fantastic action movie set against the decline into bloodthirsty decadence of the Mayan empire that seethes with swarming energy and stunning spectacle.